Risk Assessment Exemplar

Plantsbrook School Centre No. 20311 A2 Media Studies: Risk Assessments: Now you are in production you need to make sure that you work in a health and safety conscious manner and that you plan to keep your shooting.

04/12/14 Progress

Your updated progress...

Keeping up and stretching yourself...

See me with any changes, amendments and additions. Where are you? Red? Amber? Green?

Script Writing

Have a read of these for the next step in our planning:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/howtowrite/screenplay.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/6180944.stm

B Grade Student Exemplare: http://gemmacooneymedia.weebly.com/script.html

Storyboarding

Our final stages of the planning process... You are now going to storyboard your trailer. You need to remember all of your research and planning and ensure that this informs the decisions you made. Don't create a new hybrid genre of your own! You need to consider how you are going to conform or subvert generic conventions and how you will suggest narrative without giving the whole plot away: a tricky balance!

Use the template to create an individual storyboard but work together on each frame, if you are in a group to ensure you have the same plan.

Remember your technical terms and the need for consideration of transitions and mise en scene. If you need a helpful reminder go to: http://www.mediacollege.com/video/editing/transition/types.html.

Deadline: Thursday 4th December 

Thursday deadlines - Turn your reds green

What do you need to do for next lesson? Thursday 27th November

Classwork Reminder 19/11/14

Just a reminder that the deadlines for today and next week are on the post below in red. Make sure you are up to date; work is on your blog and that you are imaginative/ creative if you complete all tasks. What additional research could you be doing? See you tomorrow.

Logos and Audience Feedback

Morning all (present and Skills Show-ers) - just a little reminder of tasks and deadlines for the coming weeks:

Your final filmed, edited and polished key scenes need to be uploaded on your blogs by Thursday 20th November. 

In the meantime, you also need to be working on the following (all expected on your blogs by Thursday 27th November):

• Production logo ideas
• Film logo ideas
• Audience Feedback on logo ideas (I would suggest you use surveymonkey and share with your friends on social media)
• Shot list for your trailer - you need to create a table for this including the shot type; description and an additional column for mise en scene (lighting, props, costumes etc.)

Happy Media-ing :)

A solution to filming... Photo Animatics!

Example Photo Animatic

If you have been unable to film, in your teams work out a rough shot list for that key scene.   It must use a variety of shot types, angles, movement & composition to make it interesting and exciting for the audience.

You will then need to take photos of these images.

Firstly, you will put these together in sequence on a storyboard but without the text information.  You will then edit them together to create your animatic.  You can add music and a voiceover as necessary.

The deadline for these will be next Thursday 20th November - they must be uploaded on your blog with a description. 

Half Term Checklist

This is a list of all the things that should, by now, be on your blog. The following are things for you to do over half term: 

       1. Key scene scripts (x3)

       2. Prop lists

       3. Location descriptions with photographs and links to your key scenes 

       4. Film logo designs (x3 hand drawn designs for your production company)

DEADLINE: Wednesday 5th November 

Same rules apply with sanctions so no more red marks on the spreadsheet!

Key Scenes... What's next?

Today you will use your key scene outlines to create short scripts for three of the scenes. Write scripted scenes for these (not for your trailer!)

Look at the links on my blog for good examples of scripting and reflect on the scripts you wrote for Mr Farr in the summer term. 

Upload your scripts and share these with your group members.

Final Blog update...

Well done! Look at the progress you have made!

Remember your character profiles for Monday. Key scenes also need to be uploaded before our next lesson. We don't want anymore red...

Have a nice weekend!

Blog Progress Update

Well done! A massive improvement already. This just goes to show how vital it is keeping your blogs up to date. It is really important that you don't just upload stuff. Posts need the following:

• Clear and relevant title;
• A summary of what the post is;
• Reflection on how this has been developed from previous research and planning.

Blog Progress

Below is your progress so far:

This is as of 14th October so your Film Treatment and Audience Feedback don't have to be in until tomorrow. 

It is your responsibility to see me, show me completed tasks and get me to turn them green on the spreadsheet. If I've missed something, just let me know and the red will go. 

There shouldn't be this much missing. So, if things are not up to date and on your blog by Thursday's lesson (16th October) here's what will happen:

2 red marks - verbal warning and updated by the end of the day.

3-4 red marks - persistent failure to meet deadlines means a yellow card.

5-6 red marks - a yellow card and phone call home to arrange catch up next week. 

7+ red marks - meeting with your parents arranged.

Remember... you need to see me with any updates! Keep blogging!

Audience feedback on your pitches

Now that you have completed your pitches and they are embedded on your blogs you need to present them to five members of your target audience.  You need to select a range of people in terms of the demographics of your audience.

You will need to present your pitches to them and then ask them a series of questions about what they think of your ideas.  The questions need to be consistent for each of the people you ask.

You will need to film their responses and post these onto your blog as well as a summary/ analysis of your findings.

This needs to be completed by Wednesday 15th October 

What can we learn from this?

http://youtu.be/FM7qQIzBFlc

Summer Work from Mr Farr...

Homework Research Task for Summer

For your first homework assignment you are to conduct some research into the forms and conventions of related media products.

1. You are to upload examples of:

• film posters to thinglink
• youtube links to trailers to your blog
• front cover of a movie magazine and DVD front cover to padlet

Wherever possible try to get these products to relate to the same film.

2. You then need to identify the conventions to each of these forms and products in as much detail as possible using correct media terminology.  You will need to refer to the following;

• media language
• camera
• sound
• editing
• mise-en-scene
• representation

3. Comment upon how effective the combination of these products are together.  
Consider these questions:
How and why do these products combine/ link together?  
What links do they have in common? 
Why do they have these links in common? 
What purpose does the combination of products serve?  
Who benefits from this combination of products and why?